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February 2020 discussion archive

Browse 126 retained Hacker News discussion records from February 2020, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools29 Feb 2020 · 834 points · 453 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. A half-hour to learn Rust29 Feb 2020 · 927 points · 148 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data28 Feb 2020 · 291 points · 68 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. How to brainstorm great business ideas28 Feb 2020 · 643 points · 84 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. Freeman Dyson Has Died28 Feb 2020 · 1,238 points · 248 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride28 Feb 2020 · 717 points · 492 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits28 Feb 2020 · 829 points · 330 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. John Carmack talks about “antifragile” idea generation (2015) [video]27 Feb 2020 · 275 points · 49 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates27 Feb 2020 · 1,160 points · 258 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM27 Feb 2020 · 284 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. GitHub was down27 Feb 2020 · 291 points · 165 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly26 Feb 2020 · 681 points · 166 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. Hard Startups26 Feb 2020 · 728 points · 326 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. Tailwind UI26 Feb 2020 · 974 points · 358 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treasure trove26 Feb 2020 · 291 points · 101 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained26 Feb 2020 · 603 points · 797 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together25 Feb 2020 · 278 points · 161 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain25 Feb 2020 · 1,115 points · 123 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)25 Feb 2020 · 709 points · 102 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. To get good, go after the metagame25 Feb 2020 · 726 points · 296 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs25 Feb 2020 · 648 points · 757 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height24 Feb 2020 · 695 points · 244 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records24 Feb 2020 · 698 points · 407 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. Donald Knuth was framed24 Feb 2020 · 632 points · 180 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. “We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”24 Feb 2020 · 980 points · 328 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner23 Feb 2020 · 1,232 points · 210 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. Guide to running Elasticsearch in production23 Feb 2020 · 684 points · 158 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions23 Feb 2020 · 614 points · 155 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now23 Feb 2020 · 290 points · 375 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. Should you self-host Google Fonts?23 Feb 2020 · 289 points · 155 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. Spain builds submarine 70 tons too heavy due to wrong decimal (2013)23 Feb 2020 · 281 points · 216 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. Levels of Seniority22 Feb 2020 · 278 points · 150 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him21 Feb 2020 · 732 points · 280 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. More bosses give four-day workweek a try21 Feb 2020 · 934 points · 388 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?21 Feb 2020 · 853 points · 408 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?21 Feb 2020 · 760 points · 276 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. How to Write Usefully21 Feb 2020 · 821 points · 285 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian20 Feb 2020 · 766 points · 122 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. Suspicious Discontinuities20 Feb 2020 · 644 points · 297 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Launch HN: PostHog (YC W20) – open-source product analytics20 Feb 2020 · 282 points · 83 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. Telecoms say they have a First Amendment right to sell private data20 Feb 2020 · 278 points · 144 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. Bert Sutherland Has Died19 Feb 2020 · 680 points · 33 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – sources19 Feb 2020 · 279 points · 203 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. Explorabl.es19 Feb 2020 · 894 points · 36 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)19 Feb 2020 · 589 points · 281 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. The Problem with Palm Oil19 Feb 2020 · 270 points · 207 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)19 Feb 2020 · 602 points · 374 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. Larry Tesler Has Died18 Feb 2020 · 1,346 points · 149 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. How Spotify ran a large Google Dataflow job for Wrapped 201918 Feb 2020 · 269 points · 89 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas18 Feb 2020 · 687 points · 92 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. Kickstarter employees vote to unionize18 Feb 2020 · 910 points · 1,092 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. 7k-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered18 Feb 2020 · 281 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. Don't touch my clipboard18 Feb 2020 · 718 points · 312 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads17 Feb 2020 · 831 points · 297 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it17 Feb 2020 · 289 points · 153 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016)17 Feb 2020 · 688 points · 57 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art16 Feb 2020 · 277 points · 187 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. Don’t use the word ‘did’ or dumb anti-piracy company will delete you from Google16 Feb 2020 · 270 points · 115 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. I Learned French in 12 Months16 Feb 2020 · 748 points · 312 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. 1-on-1 meeting questions16 Feb 2020 · 1,030 points · 296 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)15 Feb 2020 · 1,002 points · 281 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. The dystopian world of software engineering interviews15 Feb 2020 · 1,027 points · 811 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. I made my own PCBs with a 3D printer14 Feb 2020 · 285 points · 144 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses14 Feb 2020 · 631 points · 392 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety13 Feb 2020 · 919 points · 403 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit13 Feb 2020 · 1,564 points · 437 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. Ultimate Electronics13 Feb 2020 · 624 points · 85 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. The outsize influence of middle-school friends13 Feb 2020 · 269 points · 164 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. The specification for native image lazy-loading is merged into HTML standard13 Feb 2020 · 282 points · 176 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. Gears12 Feb 2020 · 2,760 points · 222 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. GitHub CLI is now in beta12 Feb 2020 · 669 points · 188 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers12 Feb 2020 · 288 points · 120 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia12 Feb 2020 · 687 points · 247 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React12 Feb 2020 · 604 points · 75 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. Rotary Cellphone12 Feb 2020 · 572 points · 165 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom12 Feb 2020 · 641 points · 300 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day12 Feb 2020 · 280 points · 207 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot12 Feb 2020 · 606 points · 889 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation11 Feb 2020 · 274 points · 94 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell11 Feb 2020 · 814 points · 227 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. Firefox 7311 Feb 2020 · 631 points · 346 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?11 Feb 2020 · 852 points · 178 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades11 Feb 2020 · 962 points · 330 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. “We already store data. In a database. It works well”11 Feb 2020 · 847 points · 351 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism”11 Feb 2020 · 289 points · 199 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. I Was Wrong about Nix11 Feb 2020 · 278 points · 242 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu10 Feb 2020 · 1,047 points · 559 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math10 Feb 2020 · 269 points · 54 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years09 Feb 2020 · 714 points · 246 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)09 Feb 2020 · 279 points · 194 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. Dopamine and Temporal Difference Learning09 Feb 2020 · 285 points · 26 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. Reasons not to become famous09 Feb 2020 · 850 points · 408 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file08 Feb 2020 · 1,545 points · 402 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?08 Feb 2020 · 621 points · 145 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. Time.gov was upgraded today08 Feb 2020 · 692 points · 210 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. On Resigning from Google07 Feb 2020 · 292 points · 252 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 7507 Feb 2020 · 282 points · 158 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. Python dicts are now ordered07 Feb 2020 · 734 points · 436 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. Ask HN: What agenda do you have for 1:1 meetings with your supervisor?07 Feb 2020 · 288 points · 112 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format06 Feb 2020 · 691 points · 249 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study06 Feb 2020 · 727 points · 455 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk06 Feb 2020 · 717 points · 87 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?06 Feb 2020 · 766 points · 250 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born06 Feb 2020 · 270 points · 252 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. Show HN: My ML applications book, which HN helped me write (sample chapter) [pdf]05 Feb 2020 · 272 points · 37 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. Scaling to 100k Users05 Feb 2020 · 650 points · 186 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. Surveillance on UK council websites [pdf]05 Feb 2020 · 562 points · 145 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. Wacom tablets track every app you open05 Feb 2020 · 1,594 points · 449 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums05 Feb 2020 · 683 points · 587 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. What's SAP?05 Feb 2020 · 1,221 points · 600 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night04 Feb 2020 · 275 points · 382 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust04 Feb 2020 · 1,582 points · 642 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID04 Feb 2020 · 2,292 points · 615 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?04 Feb 2020 · 930 points · 862 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin04 Feb 2020 · 694 points · 323 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in benchmark leak04 Feb 2020 · 277 points · 220 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]03 Feb 2020 · 669 points · 641 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (2016)03 Feb 2020 · 270 points · 49 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. The Missing Semester of Your CS Education03 Feb 2020 · 1,163 points · 196 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment03 Feb 2020 · 621 points · 333 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the ‘punishing signal’03 Feb 2020 · 278 points · 216 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergencies02 Feb 2020 · 290 points · 143 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. Google Maps Hacks02 Feb 2020 · 1,410 points · 382 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. Old CSS, New CSS02 Feb 2020 · 1,018 points · 244 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. Palindrome Day 2020020202 Feb 2020 · 723 points · 173 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. Instagram took down private unofficial APIs via DMCA01 Feb 2020 · 268 points · 128 commentsPartial reading withheld